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The Beijing Winter Olympics: A wedding adjacent to a funeral

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Global Voices

Boycott Xinjiang advert on New York University’s campus, New York, NY, October 7, 2020. Photo by Themomenthasarrived2020 (CC BY-SA 4.0) The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics kicked off on February 4, with the Uyghur genocide still raging in East Turkestan (“Xinjiang” to China). This is the same as a wedding taking place next to a funeral. One of the most common and long-held rules of etiquette is not to hold a wedding on the day of a neighbor’s funeral. How is this rule so easily broken, and whom does it harm? As a veteran Uyghur journalist, my place in this scenario is on the funeral stage, so eve… Continue reading “The Beijing Winter Olympics: A wedding adjacent to a funeral”

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Standard Chartered Bank reports highest operating profit since 2015 in the Africa and Middle East region

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TDPel Media

Standard Chartered (www.SC.com) PLC (the Group) today released its financial results for the full year and fourth quarter ending 31 December 2021. See link here (https://bit.ly/3JzDaJP) In the Africa and Middle East region, the Bank has recorded its highest Operating Profit since 2015. Performance Highlights: Broad-based growth and improvement in income and profitsIncome grew by 3.5 per cent to USD 2,446 million despite the adverse impact of rate cuts on margins. Record levels of income were reported in the bank’s Financial Markets and Wealth Management businessSustained Cost discipline result… Continue reading “Standard Chartered Bank reports highest operating profit since 2015 in the Africa and Middle East region”

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Dark days ahead for Afghanistan

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Al-Araby

On 11 February, the Biden administration announced that it intended to divert $3.5 billion of frozen assets from Da Afghanistan Bank (Afghanistan’s central bank) to families of 9/11 victims. This amount is roughly half of Afghanistan’s foreign reserves, which Washington froze amid the Taliban’s takeover of the country in mid-August 2021. The US willallocate the other half of Afghanistan’s frozen foreign reserves for aid to “provide a path for the funds to reach the people of Afghanistan, while keeping them out of the hands of the Taliban and malicious actors”. Put simply, the US government is … Continue reading “Dark days ahead for Afghanistan”

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Sanaullah Ghafari, the IS leader the US has offered $10m for

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Al-Araby

Hoping to further destabilise the so-called Islamic State group following its leader’s death, US officials have turned their focus to an architect of the insurgents’ bloody revival in Afghanistan since losing their “caliphate” in Syria. Sanaullah Ghafari, also known as Shahab Al-Muhajir, has led the Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) branch since June 2020, overseeing cells charged with carrying out terror attacks, establishing ties with local leaders and raising funds. Most recently he is thought to have organised a deadly assault on the Kabul airport last August as US troops staged a chaotic pull… Continue reading “Sanaullah Ghafari, the IS leader the US has offered $10m for”

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British Deputy High Commissioner hosts reception for returning Chevening and Commonwealth scholars, underlines girls’ education

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The British High Commission on Thursday organised a virtual welcome back reception for Pakistani scholars who were awarded the prestigious Chevening and Commonwealth scholarships 2020/21. British Deputy High Commissioner Alison Blackburne welcomed the Pakistani scholars who have returned from the UK after completing a fully-funded one-year master’s programme. The event was attended by officials of the British High Commission, returning scholars, and Chevening alumni. The Deputy High Commissioner congratulated scholars on completing their master’s degree and welcomed them into the British alumn… Continue reading “British Deputy High Commissioner hosts reception for returning Chevening and Commonwealth scholars, underlines girls’ education”

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Hyundai suffers backlash in India after Pakistani partner tweets on Kashmir

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By Aditi Shah NEW DELHI (Reuters) – South Korea’s Hyundai Motor faced calls on Monday for a boycott of its cars from Indians incensed over a tweet from the account of its Pakistan partner that expressed solidarity for the people of the disputed territory of Kashmir. The row erupted on Sunday, a day after Pakistan marked the annual Kashmir Solidarity Day and the posts on behalf of Hyundai’s partner Nishat Group appeared on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram commemorating the sacrifices of Kashmiris struggling for self-determination. Hundreds of social media users in India, which considers the whol… Continue reading “Hyundai suffers backlash in India after Pakistani partner tweets on Kashmir”

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Kashmir journalist arrested over ‘anti-national’ content

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Police in Indian-administrated Kashmir have arrested a young journalist on accusations of publishing “anti-national content”, police said, in a widening crackdown against media in the disputed region. Fahad Shah, the editor of news portal Kashmir Walla, was summoned for questioning at a police station in southern Pulwama town on Friday and later arrested there, police said. In a statement late on Friday confirming Shah’s arrest, police said he was identified among “some Facebook users and portals” that had published “anti-national content”, without specifying the content. It said such content … Continue reading “Kashmir journalist arrested over ‘anti-national’ content”

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Pakistani military conduct search for militants 38 hours after base attacks

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Pakistani security forces were conducting search operations on Friday to flush out militants suspected of hiding near two military bases attacked by insurgents on Wednesday, which killed seven soldiers and 13 of their own, in the latest violence in the southwestern Balochistan province. The attacks, the biggest in recent years by ethnic Baloch insurgents, came hours before Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived in Beijing for the opening of the Winter Olympics, where he will have meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders. Two Pakistani security officials, requesting ano… Continue reading “Pakistani military conduct search for militants 38 hours after base attacks”